AE Max Screen Resolution?

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: BillBrown

I have been looking at a LG 32UD59-B from Newegg. They are selling them at $346.99USD.

I bought an LG 18" panel about five years ago. Within a few months it developed a couple of one-pixel vertical lines where the display was dead. Currently it has dozens (perhaps a hundred) of dead lines (only in the vertical display, not horizontal). At one pixel width each they don't distort any image enough to bother my old eyes. But it does indicate a quality control issue.

My daughter also had two expensive LG appliances (washer and dryer) which she had to replace because they had all kinds of bugs in their operation and the warranties were not honored to her satisfaction.

[BillBrown]

I have an LG 55" 4K OLED TV which has worked great for the last few years. The model I was looking at has a lot of good reviews.
My current 30" DELL U3014 is over 6 years old and I have no idea how much longer it will last. So far, no problems.

[Moltrey]

ORIGINAL: witpqs
My default method of starting is never pop in the disc which comes with printers, displays, etc. I only resort to them if needed because things aren't working right. I purchased the PC and the screen ala cart, so I'm pretty sure there is no LG settings program in there so far.

DisplayFusion Pro - what is that?

BTW, the only reason I went with full screen at all on the current (old) PC was the jumping during turn resolution. I'm hoping it will work in widowed mode on the new PC, but not up to the point of testing it yet.

Please check the Tech Support area of the forum and look for Korvar's sticky (at the page top) thread "How to Run WiTP:AE in Fullscreen Windowed (Borderless Windowed) Mode"
It may even help you out.

[witpqs]

Interesting - thank you!

I'm still not able to devote the time to it that I need to. Be a few days.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: BillBrown

It is not largest I am sure, but it does run at 2560 x 1600

This is working great for now, maybe I'll try to up it a little bit later on. I am using -dd_sw, got a little funky without it.

I have -deepColor set at the moment; are you guys finding it helps or is it unneeded?

[PaxMondo]

definitely prefer -deepColor

[PaxMondo]

"..\\..\\WitpAE - Andy Update\Beta2\war in the pacific admiral edition.exe" -w -cpu4 -skipVideo -autosave -dd_sw -altFont -pxf1920 -pyf1024 -deepColor -archive

this is on a 32" class … I can't go more due to MY eyes, haven't tested higher res, I would need a much bigger monitor and no space in my office for it.

[Ian R]

I use, with a 1920/1080 monitor:

... -wd -skipVideo -deepColor -dd_sw -cpu2 -pxf1872-pyf1053 -archive -altFont -autosave

My pxf/pyf gives me a window that is a little less than full screen, which I find useful (and it is 117 x 16/9, so no distortion.)

[witpqs]

Now I'm at this:

"C:\Matrix Games\WITP AE - PBM #1\Beta2\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -altFont -cpu4 -deepColor -dd_sw -archive -wd -pxf2656 -pyf1654

So 2656 x 1654, which is taking up the entire vertical space above the task bar (I don't auto-hide it). I have some space left over on the sides but the text editors, Tracker, whatever are there so I can click on them easy. And the map is huge!

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Now I'm at this:

"C:\Matrix Games\WITP AE - PBM #1\Beta2\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -altFont -cpu4 -deepColor -dd_sw -archive -wd -pxf2656 -pyf1654

So 2656 x 1654, which is taking up the entire vertical space above the task bar (I don't auto-hide it). I have some space left over on the sides but the text editors, Tracker, whatever are there so I can click on them easy. And the map is huge!

Is the text still legible?

[witpqs]

Yes. It does seem slightly smaller than the old monitor, but the quality of the monitor seems to compensate. Quite legible. Obviously eyes vary, as I well know.

The size of text and everything else did not vary with the resolution settings. I would have to measure to see how much, but things in general are a bit smaller on this monitor than the old one. Old one is 24 inches at the standard 1920 x 1080, new one is 31.5 inches with 3840 x 2160. Someone enthusiastic could calculate the areas and pixels, then the ratios of those for each monitor. But to my eye things are a little more tightly packed on the new monitor.

In Windows 10 display settings, they recommend 150% scale for icons and other items, but I am using 125% and they are plenty big. I just put them to 100% and they would be fine (and readable) at that setting too. The interface cable is HDMI, and I don't know if Windows 10 is aware of the physical size of the monitor (i.e. 31.5 inches) or merely the resolution and aspect ratio (16 x 9).

[HansBolter]

I was under the impression that you can't get a 4k signal through an HDMI cable.

I have two 4k monitors at work and when we set up the second monitor with an HDMI cable the choice for 3840 x 2160 resolution was either grayed out or not present (can't recall which).

Switching to a Display Port cable corrected the problem.

[PaxMondo]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Now I'm at this:

"C:\Matrix Games\WITP AE - PBM #1\Beta2\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -altFont -cpu4 -deepColor -dd_sw -archive -wd -pxf2656 -pyf1654

So 2656 x 1654, which is taking up the entire vertical space above the task bar (I don't auto-hide it). I have some space left over on the sides but the text editors, Tracker, whatever are there so I can click on them easy. And the map is huge!

SWEET!!!!!

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

I was under the impression that you can't get a 4k signal through an HDMI cable.

I have two 4k monitors at work and when we set up the second monitor with an HDMI cable the choice for 3840 x 2160 resolution was either grayed out or not present (can't recall which).

Switching to a Display Port cable corrected the problem.

See: https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/61da15b5

The monitor came with two cables, one HDMI and one Display Port and has 2x HDMI ports and 1x DIsplay Port. Looking more closely than I bothered before, the card in the PC also has a Display Port (and another type the monitor doesn't have) but I just plugged in the HDMI and didn't look back. I suppose I could try the Display Port. I never even bothered looking up to see which is best.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Now I'm at this:

"C:\Matrix Games\WITP AE - PBM #1\Beta2\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -altFont -cpu4 -deepColor -dd_sw -archive -wd -pxf2656 -pyf1654

So 2656 x 1654, which is taking up the entire vertical space above the task bar (I don't auto-hide it). I have some space left over on the sides but the text editors, Tracker, whatever are there so I can click on them easy. And the map is huge!

SWEET!!!!!

A very, very slight wrinkle. On the old PC I had the shortcut set to start with the window maximized because I was using all the horizontal space. On this PC, obviously not, so the shortcut starts the window "normal". The slight wrinkle is that after it starts I put the mouse pointer on the top edge of the window and double-click to maximize the window in only the vertical dimension. Happily that does anchor to the top of the monitor so the bottom is above the task bar, exactly where I want it.

[witpqs]

Here is a recent comparison of HDMI and DisplayPort.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2030669/hdmi-vs-displayport-which-display-interface-reigns-supreme.html

It looks like for my purposes it probably doesn't matter, but DisplayPort could be a bit better for me. Maybe I'll switch. Maybe I'll drink coffee instead.